Stove-leg



(No Model.)

L. S. HOYT.

STOVE LEG.

No. 278,433. Patented May 29,1883.

jam/J A UNITED STATES.

' PATENT OFFICE.

LEWIS S. HOYT, OF STAMFORD, CONNECTICUT, ASSIGNOR CF ONE-HALF TO JOHN M.CULVER, OF NORTH ABINGTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

STOVE-LEG.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 278,433, dated May 29,1883.

Application filed June 19. 1882. (N0 model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that T, LEWIS S. HOYT, of Stamford, county of Fairlield,State of Connecticut, have invented an Improvement in Stove-Legs, ofwhich the following description, in connection with the accompanyingdrawings, is a specification.

This invention, although relating more particularly to stove-legs,contains some features which are applicable to the legs of otherarticles which it is desired to level with relation to the floor onwhich the said legs stand. In this my invention the lower end of thelegis provided with a cup-shaped foot to reston the floor. Thisfootiss'o held that it cannot rotate:

but it is made adjustable on thelleg by means .of the strong threads ofa screw tappedinto a central hub of the foot. This screw has a shoulderupon which the leg rests, the said shoulder being convex to fit aconcave socket, so that the foot may tip a little, if desired, and touchall parts ofan uneven floor below it.

Figure 1 represents in side elevation my improvements embodied in astove-leg. Fig. 2 is a section ofthe same on thedotted line at :10. Fig.3 is a sectionof Fig. lon thelinew looking upward,.showing a preferredmode of securing my improved leg to the stove-base and Fig. 4 is asection of a modification of my invention applied to the legof abilliard-table.

Let a represent the part of the base of a stove, and a each of the twousual pieces which constitute the side pieces of the dovetailed guidewhich receives the tongue b of the leg 0. One of the pieces a isprovided with ratchet-teeth, as shown at d, and the tongue is providedwith a pivoted and weighted pawl, dfi'which, when the tongue is insertedbetween the pieces a, engages the said teeth and retains the leg inplace. 'A spring-pawl might be substituted for the weighted pawl; but Ido not limit the features of my-invention herein to any'particular formof fastening for the leg. Thelower end of the leg is provided with acupshaped foot, e, some part of which externally will be of other thancylindrical form, in order that a part fixed to or forming a part of theleg may co-operate therewith, and prevent the cup from being rotated asit is being adjusted vertically by the strong threads of the screw f.The

tent of covering the foot and rotation with the screwf.

screwf has a head,f by which to turn it, and the said screw being heldin theleg or afixed part thereof by ashoulder, 3, itcannot movelongitudinally therein asit rotates. The shoul; der 3 serves thus, also,as the support for the leg and the article sustained thereby. Thisscrewf has its threaded partextended through the screw-threaded centeror hub of the foot, as shown in Fig. 2, so that the foot is positivelyraised and lowered or adjusted vertically directly by the threads of thesaid screw, which makes a very much stronger, more durable, andefficient toot than was the foot made as a thinflat disk looselyattached to a head formed at the lower end of a screw and surrounded byan annulus connected with the said screw. To prevent the cup-shaped footfrom turning with the screw axially, the said cup, as shown in. Figs. 1and 2, is octagonal in horizontal section, and the flange g, dependingfrom the lower end of the leg,.is correspondingly shaped to fit theexterior of the said. foot. Vertical adjustment of the cup shaped footenables the legs to be niade'of proper lengths to level the articlesustained by them with relation to the floor on which the said feetstand. To permit the foot-to rock a little to compensate foranyinequalityof flooring directly under it, the shoulder 3 is-convexedand fits a correspondingly-concaved seat in the underside of the leg 0,as shown at 8. (See Fig. 2.) l

y In the modification, Fig. 4, the foot 6 has a spline, 10, to fit acorresponding groovein the flange g, which is substantially the same ashe flange shown in Figs. 1 and 2, to the ex- In Fig. 4, m is supposed tobe part of the leg of a billiard-table. The said leg will be providedwith'a...suitable opening to receive a wrench by which to engage thehead of and turn the screwf. It will be seen that by this preventing itsconstruction-namely, having the adj ustment wholly in the foot-the legmay be otI-any desired design.

I claim- I l. The cup-shaped foot 6, the flange g, to

hold the same against rotation, and forming the end of the leg proper,the screw f, seated in the leg and provided with a shoulder, 23, andoperating-head f and engaging the cup to move it vertically, combinedand arranged substantially as shown and described.

2. The cup-shaped foot 0, the flange y, depending from the end of theleg and overhanging and fitting the foot to preventits rotation, thescrew f, engaging the threaded center" of the foot, the shoulder 3 onsaid screw to fit in a seat in the leg, and the headf of said screw toturn the same to move the foot vertically, all combined and arranged tooperate substantially as shown and described.

3. The leg and its foot connected by a fixed ,rotary screw to adjustsaid foot vertically, a

convex shoulder, 3, on said screw, and a con cave seat, 8, in the legfor said shoulder, substantially as and for the purpose specified.

In testimony whereofI have signed my name to this specification in thepresence of two subscribing witnesses.

LEWIS S. HOYT.

Witnesses:

J os. P. LIVERMORE, FRED A. POWELL.

